She received that degree from Florida State University, a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music from the Boston Conservatory. She also received 3 Diplomas of Merit from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Dr. Afshar’s articles on Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Goya are published multi-lingually. She is the author of “Five Popular Persian Ballads” and has recorded seven CD’s. They are “24 Caprichos de Goya, OP. 195” “A Jug of Wine and Thou,” “Possession,”, “Hemispheres,” which was number seven on Billboard’s Classical Album Chart, “One Thousand and One Nights”, her first chamber music CD, “Musica da Camera”, and her most recent CD “Bach on Fire”.
